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Father Kevin A. Codd, recently retired pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Spokane, WA, shares his Sunday homilies and other occasional reflections.
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Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Today's magisterial parable of the Father and his two sons offers the listener many things to contemplate from beginning to end. Today, let's focus on the end of the story and that older son...self-righteous and self-pitying...a toxic brew!
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Moses' encounter with the burning bush on Mount Horeb reveals much about God, whose name is forever, "I AM". In John's Gospel, Jesus uses the words "I AM" nine times. Rather than asking that we come no closer, as Moses was asked, Jesus invites us deep into the burning love of God and envelopes us in that love.
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
The important story of Jesus' transfiguration finds its place during the Lenten season each year on this Second Sunday of the season. On this day, the Catholic Community in Cuenca also chose to celebrate the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick so today's homily is brief and attempts to connect both the Transfiguration story and this lovely sacrament of healing.
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Jesus faces not just one or two great temptations, but three of them, each building on the previous one, each a challenge to his very identity as "God's Beloved Son." Let's take a close look at each one...
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
More than the words of any homily, it is the primordial symbol of this day that breaks open the Scriptures just proclaimed. Ashes in the sign of the cross speak more eloquently than the words of any preacher. Death is subverted by love.
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
"Never again war! Never again war!" Pope Paul VI's cry from the heart before the General Assembly of the United Nations on October 4, 1965 has been largely dismissed in the decades since. War upon war upon war has fractured humanity. Paul VI identifies a vile kind of pride as the root of our tendency to choose war over peace and suggests humility among nations as the response, a humility modeled by Jesus himself.
This newest war challenges not only nations, but each of us and all of us to examine our own lives for that vile pride, the "rotten fruit" sprung from a "rotten tree" and to seek to nurture instead the fruit of justice and peace so that we might truly live the prophetic cry of Paul VI: "Never again war! Never again war!"
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
The story of jealous Saul's pursuit of David with the intention of killing him is one of the great stories of the Hebrew Scriptures. It is a great set-up for today's Gospel passage on loving our enemies. We can learn a lot from young David on this score!
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
(Because of a covid scare, I was not able to deliver the homily this weekend at the Iglesia San Francisco in Cuenca, but it was all ready to go! So here is a sit-down-at-the-dining-room-table version. In this unusual format, it went longer than a "real" homily in church...sorry!)
"Woe betide you!" was Sister Michael Mary's preferred way to control her classroom full of third-graders. She also offered plenty of "God bless you's" along the way. Her teaching method was not unlike that of Jesus as we see in today's gospel passage. Yet Jesus was doing so much more! He was throwing a wrench into the social order of his time...and the ripple effects of that wrench wash up on our shores to this very day...even the shores of Sister Michael Mary and her third-graders!
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Jesus' powerful words and he himself as The Word, in today's gospel give us an opportunity to go deeper into the mystery of the powerful, creating Word that is Jesus.
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Luke's story of Jesus' visit to his hometown, Nazareth, picks up this Sunday where it left off last Sunday. Part Two of the drama leaves us scratching our heads! What just happened here...and WHY?